Piper PA-30
N178X is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ss Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sulphur, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for operation in excess of maximum certificated, dated September 13, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-1950
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- A138F2 (octal 50234362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Operation in excess of maximum certificated · September 13, 1971
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00182470
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ss Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3624 Violet Ln
Sulphur, LA 70665-8065
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N178X, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Ss Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for operation in excess of maximum certificated; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1950 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178X according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N178X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data